Pot and lid lifter.



J. KENKEL.

POT AND LID LIFTER.

APPLICATION m50 MAR. 1. uns.

Patentedept. 3,1918.-

JOHN KENKEL, OF CHEYENNE, WYOMING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1918.-

Ap111ication filed liarch 7, 1918. Serial N0. 221,021.

T0 all whom z't mag; c oneem:

Be it known that I, JOHN KENKEL, a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at Chey enne, i n the county of Laramie and State of Wyoming, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pot and Lid Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates t0 devices for facilitating the lifing and carrying of bot pans 01' kettles and the like, and particularly to facilitate the removal of eovers and tops of various types of pans, kettles er kitchen utensils, the object of the invention being to provide an extremely simple, in: expensive, practicable and durable device of this type, whereby covers, tops er the like und various types of containers and cooking utensils may be conveni ently removed while hot without liability 0f scalding or injuring the user.

With these and other objects in view as will be rendered manifest in the following specification, the invention consists of a pot or utensil and cover lifter comprising the construetion, the combination and details es described more particularly hereinafter in reference to an embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying dra.wing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device shown in its application t0 the cover to be removed; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the use of the device to engage a rigid bail o1 a cover; Fig. 3 shows the device applied to a knob; and Fig. 4. shows it as a stove lifter.

The implement comprises a. pair 0f lever membem 2 and 3, preferably in the form of round wire, having slightly Outwardly curved handle portions 4 and 5 to one of which there is secured rigidly a substantiall U-shaped fulcrum member 6 bent aroun one of the shanks 2 and firmly clamped thereon by mea.ns of a rivet 7 driven through the parallel bare of the cl ip 6 in a. position close to the surface of the shank 2 embraced. The upper and 0pen ends of the clip 6 straddle the opposite and fulerumed lever 3, these parts being pivotally connected by a rivet 01 the like 8 which is driven through the ends of the clip and through the body of the lever 3, the latter being providecl thereby for rocking movement on the upper end of the clip 6.

' The operative ends of the lifter are shown as compri sing convergently curved portions 9 which are again outwardly curved a.t opposite points 10 beyond which there are formed small bows 11 forming an elliptica] eye 12 beyond Which ends 1313 are provided with relatively flat surfaces 14 which may, if desired, be sei-rated es at 15 to increase the friction of the gripping jaws thus formed when the grippers are closed together through the action of. a eontractile spring 16, the ends of which are provided with hooks 17 embracing the rods or levers 2 und 3, the spring bein shown es disposed closely adjacent to the ulcrum elip 6. The extreme outer ends of the gripping jaws 13 are beveled outwardly as at 20 to facilitate the guiding of the device when the jaws are Sprung open by pressure on the handles The curved portions 10-10 of the bare may be covered with sections of rubber tubing es illustrated et 21 to form a cushion to prevent the marring er scarring of the pieces to be elamped by the lifter.

What I claim is:

An implement for handling heated. lids, covers, pans, etc., comprising a. pair of members with substantially straight handle portions spaced with their axes in a common plane, a spacing element upon which one of the members is pivoted, each member bent in a quarter turn beyond the fulcrum to a meeting plane, then bowed so as to form an eye between the meeting bows, and the end beyond the bow deflected from the meeting plane, and means for contracting the gripping ends.

In testimony whereof I afl'1x my signature.

JOHN KENKEL. 

